Friday, February 22, 2008

Lifetap, Shit on?

RADIKAL, GODMAGE, HAS A PRESENT FOR YOU.

YOU CANNOT DISPEL ANY SPELLSTOLEN BUFF. ANYTHING. POWER WORD SHIELD. RENEW. HEROISM. FEAR WARD. PLEASE DON'T TELL ANYONE. THIS IS OUR SECRET. (ignore the caps)

LIFETAP IS NERFED TO SHIT

IT IS NERFED TO USELESS

THANK YOU GOD

(Gives less mana the lower the warlock's mp is, scaling % down)

Oh and new imp blink = super evasion for 4 seconds (25%)

Blink in the spellbook says 224 mana, but it is still 448 btw. Try it out and stop thinking it got changed you terribads. MAKE THAT 336 MANA I HAVE DOWN SYNDROME IN MY FACE.

42 comments:

Anonymous said...

May I ask what source you use for the lifetap nerf? I can't find it on either MMO, WOR, Lock forums, or Test forums.

barrelroll/dwarfgimli said...

baller

Anonymous said...

lolwut?

Anonymous said...

Radikal you still need to duel me (i r bored)

~Raynor

Anonymous said...

Raddy, don't you think the improved blink buff is kinda underwhelming?

Raddy said...

Imp Blink buff is a bit weird, I think 50% would be OP as shit and awesome, 25% is a weird amount as it becomes just another random bullshit thing. I think 3 seconds of 50% would be perfect. (You could say blink as a lock fears or druid cyclones for a solid chance of resisting it)

My source is the test realms for all changes btw.

Lifetap is based off current mana, if you have zero mana when you lifetap now, you get nothing back. How all these retards are on PTR without realizing this more quickly is a testament to how many fucktard warlocks are out there. ^^

Watching a lock tap once was enough to know. =p

Quick quick thought:

While Imp Blink and Molten Shields are both shitty individually, they do make it slightly gayer to train fire mages all day in 5s. (Blazing speed too) The problem is everything is dispellable and I'm not sure it's enough to really discourage perma training mages either way. The Icy Veins change is pretty mediocre too -- you will get dispelled by that gay felhunter autoattacking you preventing you from casting for shit anyways.

scribble said...

so does this mean I can play something other than frost in the arenas and be effective? Or does this mean my frost spec just becomes stronger? This is a serious topic on a very serious Friday night.

Nadagast said...

Are you fucking serious about lifetap being based off of current mana? Im patching PTR now...

Peace out warlock if this is true. They will be one of the worst classes in the game

Raddy said...

I don't joke nada. EVER.

Actually, this shit be serious though. Probably a bug. (OR NOT)

Nadagast said...

Yeah I just checked it.

With like 200 mana, I tap'd at a cost of 2k mana and got 47 mana back. Awesome. If this is a real change that goes through... honestly Warlocks are totally fucked

Anonymous said...

I don't want to play frost anymore :(

Srsly shits borked, can't say any of this makes me want to spec arc/fire but it's nice shits heading in different directions...kind of like for rogues and how they have more spec options now even if shs is still mostly dominant.

Nadagast said...

at a cost of 2k health, not mana, lol

Rob said...

The warlock thing is an obvious bug
Frost still needs passive pushback of 50%,
Mage shields should not be dispellable.

Anonymous said...

Trust horrible, skilless, QQing mages like Radikal to whine their way to another warlock nerf.

But it won't help you. Enjoy still being soloed by a felhunter, you awful mage.

PS: grats on being carried in 3v3 and 5v5, Raddy. You're bad.

ITalkAllSortsOfNoiseAnonymously said...

YEAH RADDY GRATS ON BEING CARRIED LOL GRATS MAN GRATS

Anonymous said...

How's the spellsteal->spell reflect thing workout then?

You drop all buffs, Arcane Power it up, spellsteal a spell-reflecting warrior, and get a 2 minute undispellable buff?

Yes?

romulox said...

i also want to BIG UP you for being carried in 2s by ming.

GRATSLOLCARRIEDLOLGRATS

what if the new blink mechanic % reduction was based off the range you are after the blink.

ie you blink to 0 yards of the target, you get like 50% reduction

you blink to 30 yards away from the target, you get like 10% reduction.


so agaisnt casters you want to blink in and mix it up, blast wave...get rowdy.

agaisnt mele you want to blink out to gain distance at the cost of % reduction.

this would make where you blink alot more strategic during an assist. probably impossible to implement though.

Anonymous said...

"- Icy Veins has been changed, instead of increasing the chance your chilling effects will Freeze the target by 10%, it will now give you 100% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting. (duration remains the same: 20 sec)."

???? shouldn't you be more happy about this

Andy said...

dunno, lot of mages I play with say they like the haste, somewhat.

Raddy said...

MY WATER ELEMENTAL CARRIES ME IN DUELS

lol ky

holtz said...

Raddy, your blog has attracted some of the most idiotic posters and I thank you for the constant freakshow.

Anonymous said...

lol ky

As soon as you learn to play.

Solder (LS) said...

Blink seems to subtract 336 mana for me, despite saying 224 mana on the tooltip.

Anonymous said...

Anyone who flames someone anonymously in blog comments needs to KY.

barrelroll/dwarfgimli said...

I'm goin 41 arc cuz I can

Anonymous said...

Regarding the Blink mana cost: find it a little odd that 336 = 224 * 1.5 exactly? Sounds to me like some buggy behavior is going on regarding the calculations of making Imp Blink trainable, I have a feeling it's intended to be 224.

gablo said...

I have a feeling that radikal is my favorite. I told a warlock in BGs that lifetap = shit and he /afk to go look it up. then he whispered me and swore at me for telling him. then he gquit since I told on him to the gm. part of that is true.

Kolenzo said...

More like 13 sec of undispellable arcane power. Should be interesting though, spell reflect is gonna make this fun ;P

Chuck said...

Anon hurts. True story.

Anonymous said...

Some of you ass kissing Radikal worshipers make me want to hurl. If you took the time to stop and look objectively, you'd realize that he is a scrub mage who's trying hard to be "e-famous" because he has a crappy blog where he posts random shit in an effort to sound tough, where in reality he is nothing but an e-thug with a big mouth.

He evens fails in one thing he has devoted his life to: Playing WoW from his mother's basement.

I look forward to another dueling video he has been promising for so long of him burning cold snap to kill some feralol druids and mutilate rogues. Maybe he will even include warriors this time!

teki said...

ROFL at going after Rad's RL

Anonymous said...

I have been reading this blog off and on for 9 months, and it has zero to do with "ass kissing" Radikal. Even though he posts less and less, and his articles stray from WoW more frequently, he does still break a lot of news and strategies before the rest of the crowd. I'm not a fan of his Noir Poker posts but I understand that he would rather write about something of interest to him than write mindless rants about Warcraft PvP.

P.S. His dueling videos are what made me decide to reroll a mage in TBC. I have watched countless videos in TBC and still feel his first videos were the best I have seen.

Tef said...

Raddy is e-fabulous. But I do hate Poker Noir.

allllllexxxxxxxiiiiiiaaallllll said...

Why is it always gotta be someone's basement?

Some ballers play their games in attics, garages, car ports, walk-in closets, and guest houses you know...

I, for example, play my games in the deep end of my grandma's empty swimming pool.

Anonymous said...

Swimming Pool Gamers Represent yo!

Anonymous said...

The HATE only makes Raddy stronger...

Anonymous said...

I don't read the posts, i just come here to enjoy the comments.

Rob said...

Anyone posting as anonymous: Raddy > you

True story

I especially liked the Dude who bitched about mages getting locks nerfed and then said his felhunter could solo a mage. Clearly he's saying more nerfs are needed amirite?

saqe said...

my bro raddy seems like this guy knows more about you than you do.
creepy stalkers these days

Raddy said...

"I don't read the posts, i just come here to enjoy the comments."

I feel exactly the same way.

Anonymous said...

OMG RADDY GONGRATULATIONS ON MAKING IT TO THE E-BALLER HALL OF FAME!! WITH YOUR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTS AS THE GOD OF MAGES, ACCEPT THE PRIZE WE OFFER OF HAVING YOUR VERY OWN E-HATERS!!

SERIOUSLY, I WANT TO BEND YOU OVER A MAGE TABLE...I'D EVEN BE NICE ENOUGH TO GIVE YOU A REACH-AROUND. =D

/capslock

Vontre said...

This comment section is getting stranger all the time...